Frome MP Launches Hackathon to Address Mental Health in Children

Frome MP launches Hackathon to address mental health in children

This not only supports mental health and helps people's understanding of mental health issues, but also develops practical, community-led solutions.

Reducing default mode network connectivity with mindfulness-based fMRI neurofeedback: a pilot study among adolescents with affective disorder history

Adolescents experience alarmingly high rates of major depressive disorder (MDD), however, gold-standard treatments are only effective for ~50% of youth. Accordingly, there is a critical need to develop novel interventions, particularly ones that target neural mechanisms believed to potentiate depressive symptoms. Directly addressing this gap, we developed mindfulness-based fMRI neurofeedback (mbNF) for adolescents that aims to reduce default mod…

Addressing youth mental health crisis starts with primary care

There has been a staggering rise in mental health challenges among young people in recent years. According to a new report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, diagnoses of major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, in teens ages 15 to 17 doubled from 2019 to 2022. These rates remain significantly elevated today.

School smartphone bans reflect growing concern over youth mental health ...